V-cs voice ‘significant concern’ on regulator’s ‘quality’ metrics

As usual the regulators and bureaucrats should stop telling Universities what they should or should not do all the time. Universities are already tied up in red tape and bureaucracy without adding to it thank you very much. Lets instead stop wasting money on all the unnecessary bureaucrats that have infected UK universities to free up resources for more frontline academics to properly look after students, improve their skill sets and then make them much more attractive for employers to employ.

It;s not just universities with a higher proportion of 'disadvantaged' students who will suffer. What about students who are inspired to take up socially-important but badly-paid work, what about students who go into creative arts or indeed anyone who pursues a career based on doing what fascinates them rather than what pays the best?

My students usually get into professional careers. As nightclub bouncers and burger flippers. Does this count? I still can't believe our chavvy applicants are gullible enough to think any employer would hire them, with or without that degree certificate they are ordering from us. (It used to be a place of learning, but that ended when the introduction of tuition fees allowed the customers to decide how little they really wanted to learn before getting that certficate.)

So much for levelling up! This is a power grab on behalf of central Government and an attack on University independence. There is more to life then "managerial and professional jobs" - shorthand for high paying jobs. Far too vague! What happens to innovative leaders of cutting edge start up companies where pay might be low for up to 5 years before the company takes off? Are they eligble if the call themselves Directors or does their pay have to be over £35k a year??